Workshop on Quantum Materials at the Nanoscale 2009
Workshop on Quantum Materials at the Nanoscale 2009
Date: September 25-26, 2009
Venue: Engineering Sciences Building, Room 190
1101 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
Hosted by the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
Condensed matter physics is sometimes viewed as being divided into distinct areas of study. One area is "nanoscale science," which includes the study of, for example, 2D electron gases, semiconductor quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, graphene, superconducting nanowires, etc. Another area, often given the heading of "strongly correlated electron systems", includes the study of superconductivity in copper-oxides and the iron pnictides, colossal magnetoresistance, quantum spin liquids in frustrated systems, Mott physics, etc.; this research area normally involves the study of bulk, single crystals.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the novel physics that exists at the intersection between these two "areas" of CMP. We wish to discuss existing opportunities, and to identify new opportunities, for studying the interplay between strong correlation physics and nanoscale science. Topics to be addressed at the workshop include, though are certainly not limited to,
- Strongly correlated interfaces in transition metal oxide heterostructures.
- Correlation effects in nanoscale structures, such as superconducting nanowires.
- Quantum wires, quantum dots, and nanocrystals of highly correlated materials.
- Electronic self-organization, for example stripe phases.
- Interplay between two or more of the above phenomena.
Sponsored by:
Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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